Photo: Mara Battiste
Welcome
Welcome to the homepage for composer, educator and jazz pianist Judd Danby.
As a composer, Judd creates concert music for traditional and electronic media as well as jazz works. His music has been performed at venues throughout the U.S., including the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ball State University, Connecticut College, Indiana University, Kansas State University, Merkin Hall, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Iowa, and in the Lafayette, IN, area at Wabash College and Duncan Hall by the Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society.
His Mirrors
for percussion quartet is published by Media
Press, and his electronic work Twelve Can Play That
Game appears on the recording Sound
Speculations (University of Illinois CD EMS 9300). His jazz
works appear on Los Blancos Latin
Jazz Band’s Receta
Original (Red Pepper Records CD374). His compositions have been
featured on the radio by WILL–FM (Urbana, IL), WBAA–Purdue’s Inside
Jazz and WICR in Indianapolis.
As an educator, Judd serves as Composer-in-residence at the Arts & Communications Academy at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN, where he works with students in the areas of music theory, composition, and jazz improvisation. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Piano at Purdue University and Chair of the Indiana Music Educators Association annual Composition Competition.
As a jazz pianist he performs with his own quartet, the InterPlay quartet, Los Blancos Latin Jazz Band, the Randy Salman Quartet, and as a sideman with other jazz ensembles throughout central Indiana. As an improvising performer in the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble he has performed with Roscoe Mitchell and recorded Anthony Braxton’sComposition 165 under the composer’s direction (New Albion 050).
Judd also serves as Artistic Director of The Jazz Club, a not-for-profit member-supported jazz concert series in the Greater Lafayette, IN, area.
As an educator, Judd serves as Composer-in-residence at the Arts & Communications Academy at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN, where he works with students in the areas of music theory, composition, and jazz improvisation. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Piano at Purdue University and Chair of the Indiana Music Educators Association annual Composition Competition.
As a jazz pianist he performs with his own quartet, the InterPlay quartet, Los Blancos Latin Jazz Band, the Randy Salman Quartet, and as a sideman with other jazz ensembles throughout central Indiana. As an improvising performer in the University of Illinois New Music Ensemble he has performed with Roscoe Mitchell and recorded Anthony Braxton’sComposition 165 under the composer’s direction (New Albion 050).
Judd also serves as Artistic Director of The Jazz Club, a not-for-profit member-supported jazz concert series in the Greater Lafayette, IN, area.
